The shell-command example would make more sense to us if you put code tags around it (<c>…</c>).

As indicated in the first reply above, your question is not clear. What have you tried in perl so far?

In terms of a perl script that gathers and reports information about quantities of things in a directory structure, you might want to look at a tool I posted here a while back: Get useful info about a directory tree -- it has command line options for specifying a date range of interest.

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Re: Perl script to find the file count in subdirectories in a time interval

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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